Solved K 3.0 Kunena Discuss: how to use

hi there,

i havent been to these boards in a long time,

i have Kunera 3 With Discuss and other plugins.

as i am still in the test tinkering phase on a site

i am starting to want all primary article replies in the forums.
i still dont quite get the mapping part for article replies with discuss into the kunera forums. for example, it would be great to have website FAQs section where articles for New FAQS in the article section are written and added to, and all replies to those articles go into the forum catagory section...

at the same time as i write articles or add them to a category and section on the main joomla CMS i would like to allow the replies go if different areas

also with the above said can i close out a forum topic of replies?

i dont know php though i would like to understand and learn some

Thanks,
Mark

Create the mapping "content category ID - kunena category ID" for those content categories you know right now (for instance FAQs). Then create a default kunena category for all other (new/not know right now) content categories.

Also, you can use the parent category hack I developed - www.kunena.org/forum/k-3-0-kunena-discuss-p/127613 . In this case you'll need to indicate only the parent ID, all content sub-categories (even created later) will get into same parent ID and same Kunena ID.

hey there,

so what you are saying is to use the catagory id for the Kunera catagory id number (admin back panel) and insert that to the discuss plugin?

then all faq articles writen in the joomla article catagory gets a reply in the kunera catagory

and no other topics are created unless i created them in the joomla article content?

do i have this right?

as i said i dont know or understand php

thanks
Mark

Open the plugin's backend and check Category Mapping option.
Tip to it says: Enter comma-delimited pairs of category IDs to map a Joomla category to a Kunena category. For example, articles in Joomla category A will create topics in Kunena category B. If Joomla category 5 should create/map to topics in Kunena category 6 and Joomla category 7 should create/map to topics in Kunena category 10, enter 5,6;7,10; into the field using semi-colons to separate the pairs. Joomla categories not listed here will default to the value in the Default Forum Category field.
So, it means that if all your FAQ articles belong to content category, let's say 5, and kunena's category is, let's say, 2, just add to the Category Mapping option 5,2. For each commented article new topic will be created, but in the same kunena category.

hey Gary,

thanks, i will try this later on the test site, i appreciate the help, as i want to improve my site capabilities and ease of use for me and other authors

i will copy and paste your last reply and try in and if have further questions ill reply back here

take care
Mark

hello again

i wanted to give a brief update here,

i got a couple articles tested in a catagory and then they were automatically added to a CATAGORY and then within a Manually Made topic

what i wantad to do is have 1 MASTER Catagory in Kunera called FAQs, as in the Articles section, YET within the Articles have a sub catagory (like Faqs/Profiles) where i can have all articles written as answered in there automatically, i wish to do this for Forums example FAQs\Forum (articles))

I Have yet to understand where i am going wrong in the DISCUSS setting this is still a bit confusing for this part..

HELP
Mark